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| GMC Anantnag asks Health Deptt to vacate erstwhile district hospital building | | Residents for immediate shifting of MCH | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Dec 24: As the clamor to shift maternity and children hospital from Sherbagh Anantnag to old district hospital grows, the Government Medical College Anantnag has served a notice to health authorities asking them to vacate from its premises.
"We have written to Chief Medical Officer Anantnag and directed him to vacate his office and allied units of health department housed in old district hospital building at Jaglatmandi so that we could shift MCH there," Principal Medical College, Dr Shwoket Jeelani told Early Times.
He however said that shifting of MCH Anantnag to under construction Remat-e-Alam hospital is the utmost priority.
"We have directed JKPCC authorities to expedite work on Rehmat-e-Alam Hospital and hand it over to medical college immediately," he said.
The health department has already accommodated CMO's office, Ayush unit, Dental section, CT scan section, physiotherapy in old district hospital building at Janglatmandi.
The lone Maternity and Child Care hospital in South Kashmir has been confronting the problem of space crunch as it continues to function from the old, dilapidated and unsafe building at Sherbagh.
This has been taking toll on the healthcare of the patients and at times forcing the doctors to unnecessarily refer pregnant ladies and children to Srinagar hospitals.
This hospital which caters to entire south Kashmir as well as Chenab and Pirpanchal valleys is only 40 bedded with an average of more than 40000 patients in the Out-patient department (OPD) and about 7000 indoor patient's on a monthly basis.
"The hospital lacks proper space and is always overcrowded with even two to three patients sharing a single bed. The beds have been put even in the corridor," said a doctor posted at MCH wishing anonymity.
He said there is no proper ventilation and the building has also been declared unsafe by the fire and emergency department several years ago.
Even as the hospital is now under Government Medical College (GMC), Anantnag still then the situation is so grim that the doctors are forced to refer the patients which could otherwise be easily treated here to Srinagar hospitals.
The locals and medicos have been for long for shifting of hospital to old building of district hospital as the hospital is devoid of proper sanitation and the wards always stink as a result of which there is an every likelihood of diseases.
Locals said that Sherbagh where the MCH is located is very much congested with narrow roads and the area witness's frequent traffic jams.
Four years back the MCH was shifted to the Janglatmandi along with machinery, however ironically it was overnight shifted back at the behest of a local PDP leader only to appease few chemists and shopkeepers running their business outside the hospital. |
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